flutter_bidi_text 2.0.0

A Flutter package that provides text widgets with automatic bidirectional text direction detection for multilingual applications.

Changelog

All notable changes to the flutter_bidi_text package will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

2.0.0 - 2026-07-24

BREAKING CHANGES

All four Bidi* widgets now extend StatelessWidget or StatefulWidget instead of their Flutter counterparts (Text, RichText, TextField). All behaviour and constructor APIs are identical — only the Dart type hierarchy changed.

If your code uses is/as type checks on these widgets, update them:

Old (broken)	Fix
widget is Text	widget is BidiText
widget is RichText	widget is BidiRichText
widget is TextField	widget is BidiTextField

Added

• BidiSelectableText widget — selectable text with auto direction detection, mirroring SelectableText and SelectableText.rich
• BidiText.rich(InlineSpan) named constructor — drop-in for Text.rich
• pub.dev topics field for improved discoverability: bidi, rtl, text, internationalization, multilingual

Fixed

• Critical: 8 constructor parameters in BidiTextField were silently dropped and never forwarded to the inner TextField: groupId, undoController, statesController, ignorePointers, cursorOpacityAnimates, cursorErrorColor, onTapAlwaysCalled, contentInsertionConfiguration
• canRequestFocus (deprecated Flutter 3.27) replaced by stylusHandwritingEnabled in BidiTextField and BidiTextFormField
• HTTPS URLs (https://) now correctly detected as weakly LTR (was http:// only)
• _LTR_CHARS / _RTL_CHARS regex strings now use proper Dart Unicode escapes instead of fragile double-escaped raw strings
• onDirectionChanged doc comment corrected: callback always receives a non-null TextDirection (falls back to Directionality.of(context))
• README callback type signature fixed: (TextDirection direction) not (TextDirection? direction)
• Example app: deprecated primarySwatch replaced with ColorScheme.fromSeed
• BidiText and BidiRichText no longer import package:flutter/material.dart (proactive step ahead of Flutter's Material decoupling initiative)

Changed

• flutter_lints upgraded from ^5.0.0 to ^6.0.0
• All Bidi* widgets now use composition instead of inheritance
• BidiHelper RegExp patterns are now pre-compiled as static final fields, improving performance for repeated direction detection calls

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1.1.2 - 2025-11-25

Changed

• Optimized BidiHelper class by pre-compiling RegExp patterns as static final fields, improving performance during text direction detection

Fixed

• Updated URL detection pattern to recognize both HTTP and HTTPS URLs as LTR content

1.1.1 - 2025-11-17

Fixed

• Correctly pass BidiTextField keyboardType property to parent TextField in the constructor by using super.keyboardType directly instead of redundant parameter declaration

1.1.0 - 2025-10-18

Added

• BidiRichText widget with automatic text direction detection for RichText with TextSpan support
• Comprehensive test suite for BidiRichText widget
• Support for nested TextSpan trees with automatic direction detection
• WidgetSpan support in BidiRichText (ignored in direction detection)
• Examples in demo app showcasing BidiRichText usage with styled text and icons
• Technical Background section in README explaining Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm
• Updated documentation with BidiRichText usage examples

1.0.2 - 2025-04-13

Fixed

• Applied standard Dart formatting to source code files.

1.0.1 - 2025-04-12

Fixed

• Removed deprecated scribbleEnabled parameter from BidiTextField and BidiTextFormField
• Improved compatibility with latest Flutter versions

1.0.0 - 2025-04-13

Added

• Initial release of the package
• BidiText widget with automatic text direction detection
• BidiTextField widget with text direction detection and callbacks
• BidiTextFormField widget for form integration
• Configurable sample length for direction detection optimization
• Direction change callbacks for input widgets
• Comprehensive test suite for all widgets
• Documentation with examples
• Utility functions for text direction detection